admit
(verb)
verb
1. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
- He admitted his errors
Similar word(s): acknowledge
Definition categories: communication, adjudge, declare, hold
2. allow to enter; grant entry to
- We cannot admit non-members into our club building
- This pipe admits air
Similar word(s): intromit
Definition categories: social, allow, countenance, let, permit
3. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
- admit someone to the profession
- She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar
Similar word(s): include
Definition categories: social, allow, countenance, let, permit
4. admit into a group or community
- We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
Definition categories: possession, accept, have, take
5. afford possibility
- This problem admits of no solution
Similar word(s): allow
Definition categories: stative
6. give access or entrance to
- The French doors admit onto the yard
Definition categories: stative
7. have room for; hold without crowding
- The theater admits 300 people
Similar word(s): accommodate, hold
Definition categories: stative
8. serve as a means of entrance
- This ticket will admit one adult to the show
Definition categories: stative, do, serve
Sentences with admit as a verb:
- A ticket admits one into a playhouse.
- They were admitted into his house.
- to admit a serious thought into the mind
- to admit evidence in the trial of a cause
- to admit an attorney to practice law
- the prisoner was admitted to bail
- the argument or fact is admitted
- he admitted his guilt
- she admitted taking drugs / she admitted to taking drugs
- the words do not admit such a construction.
- circumstance do not admit of this
- the text does not admit of this interpretation